Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘Webinars everywhere! A look from my Article 17 obsessed eyes’
“For all its hardships, the pandemic has been a fruitful time for webinars. While they are not a complete replacement for real world seminars, there is a distinct advantage to being able to attend many conferences, seminars and lectures from home and still feel part of the IP community. Here is a summary of some […]
Call for Papers: Privacy Law Scholars Conference, 3-4 June 2021
The Program Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference invites submission of abstracts for the 14th annual conference (PLSC 2021) to be held virtually on Thursday and Friday, June 3 and 4, 2021. PLSC is a paper workshop conference. It offers no opportunity or obligation to publish. The goal is to provide support for in-progress […]
‘Virtual conference: English Law and Colonial Connections’
“Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz and Northumbria University, Newcastle, this online symposium will take place across two afternoons (GMT) on January 26 and 27, 2021. This symposium aims to bring together researchers with interests in legal history and history more broadly. The symposium theme has no specific periodization or […]
‘Virtual event: Civil Justice Fest’
Civil Justice Fest, November 2020, Law & Economics Center, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. Uploaded November 2020. Managing Dockets and Judicial Resources During COVID-19 While Preserving Standards of Fairness and Justice Looking Forward: Civil Justice Issues in the Next Administration and New Congress The Expanding Scope of Public Nuisance and Locality Litigation: The […]
‘The End to Testamentary Freedom’ by Richard Hedlund (online), 13 January 2021
Testamentary freedom is a hallmark of modern English succession law, allowing testators to freely choose whom to benefit and exclude from inheriting their estate by writing a will. However, in 1938 the UK Parliament introduced the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, which introduced the so-called family provision rule, allowing close family members to apply to court […]
‘Private enforcement of conduct of business rules in financial regulation – is there a role for contractual ethics?’ Lunchtime Roundtable, 17 December 2020
A roundtable discussion of the book ‘MiFID II and Private Law. Enforcing EU Conduct of Business Rules’ (Hart Publishing, 2019) by Federico Della Negra … (more, registration) First posted 2020-12-16 10:01:44
‘3rd German Conference for Young Private International Law Scholars on 18/19 Mar 2021’
“On 18 and 19 March 2021, the third German Conference for Young Private International Law Scholars will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (via Zoom) …” (more) [Ralf Michaels, Conflict of Laws .net, 15 December] First posted 2020-12-16 14:25:40
Call for Papers: Cross-Border Families under Covid-19: Zoom Workshop, Tel Aviv University, 22-23 June 2021
Cross-border families (also known as transnational and globordered families) are a growing and diverse phenomenon. People around the globe create bi-national spousal relations, are assisted by cross-border reproduction services, or by a migrant care worker who provides care for a dependent family member. Likewise, families become cross-bordered when one of the parents relocates, with or […]
‘Contract law in times of corona and other sanitary crises’
“The yearly Ius Commune conference, this year held online on 26 November 2020, traditionally includes a contract law workshop. This year the theme of the workshop was ‘Contract law in times of corona and other sanitary crises’. Five researchers presented recent work dealing with subthemes …” (more) [Caroline Cauffman and William Bull, Maastricht University, 7 […]
Obligations X: Banff 2022
The tenth conference in the Obligations series will be held in Banff, Canada from July 11-15, 2022. The Obligations conference that was to have been held at Harvard Law School in July 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic … (more) [obsconf.com, 30 November] First posted 2020-11-30 05:15:33